Reputation: 159
I select data from several tables. Then i need to edit the data returned from the cursor before returning. The cursor will then be passed to a perl script to display the rows.
To that i build a pl/sql table as in the following code. What i need to know is how to return the to that table ?
At present i get the error "table or view doesn't exist". Test code i use for a simple table is attached here.
CREATE OR REPLACE FUNCTION test_rep
RETURN SYS_REFCURSOR
AS
CURSOR rec_Cur IS
SELECT table1.NAME,
table1.ID
FROM TESTREPORT table1;
TYPE rec_Table IS TABLE OF rec_Cur%ROWTYPE INDEX BY PLS_INTEGER;
working_Rec_Table rec_Table;
TYPE n_trade_rec IS RECORD
(
NAME VARCHAR2(15),
ID NUMBER
);
TYPE ga_novated_trades IS TABLE OF n_trade_rec index by VARCHAR2(15);
va_novated_trades ga_novated_trades;
v_unique_key VARCHAR2(15);
TYPE db_cursor IS REF CURSOR;
db_cursor2 db_cursor;
BEGIN
OPEN rec_Cur;
FETCH rec_Cur BULK COLLECT INTO working_Rec_Table;
FOR I IN 1..working_Rec_Table.COUNT LOOP
v_unique_key := working_Rec_Table(I).NAME;
va_novated_trades(v_unique_key).NAME := working_Rec_Table(I).NAME;
va_novated_trades(v_unique_key).ID := working_Rec_Table(I).ID;
END LOOP; --FOR LOOP
OPEN db_cursor2 FOR SELECT * FROM va_novated_trades; --ERROR LINE
CLOSE rec_Cur;
RETURN db_cursor2;
END test_rep;
/
Upvotes: 2
Views: 15152
Reputation: 16915
Basically there is a way to select from a table type
in oracle using the TABLE()
function
SELECT * FROM table(va_novated_trades);
But this works only for schema table types and on plsql tables
(table types defined in the SCHEMA and not in a plsql package):
CREATE TYPE n_trade_rec AS OBJECT
(
NAME VARCHAR2(15),
ID NUMBER
);
CREATE TYPE ga_novated_trades AS TABLE OF n_trade_rec;
But I still think you should try to do it all in a query (and/or in the perl script),
For example, there is one field where i have to analyse the 4th character and then edit other fields accordingly
This can be achieved in the query, could be something like:
select case when substr(one_field, 4, 1) = 'A' then 'A.' || sec_field
when substr(one_field, 4, 1) = 'B' then 'B.' || sec_field
else sec_field
end as new_sec_field,
case when substr(one_field, 4, 1) = 'A' then 100 * trd_field
when substr(one_field, 4, 1) = 'B' then 1000 * trd_field
else trd_field
end as new_trd_field,
-- and so on
from TESTREPORT
Upvotes: 2